Carl Sittel

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Carl Sittel (born September 29, 1871 in Trier , † 1955 in Neuss ), later also Karl Sittel, was a German architect mainly based in Neuss .

Life

Born in Trier, Sittel attended the building trade schools in Cologne and Zerbst in order to finish with the master craftsman's examination in 1891 . From 1893 to 1895 he worked in two architects' offices in Kassel and did his military service in 1895/96 . During the subsequent activity with the Alexian Order in Cologne between 1896 and 1898 he attended various architectural seminars and lectures at the Technical University in Aachen , where he was particularly influenced by the urban planner Karl Henrici . Then Sittel was entrusted with the construction management of a large hospital in Cologne ; on October 15, 1899, the Cologne building department finally hired him "for the project planning and construction management of larger new buildings and maintenance of urban buildings". In Cologne, Sittel also married Ludmilla Caroline Courth (1882-1958), with whom he had a son. When the city of Neuss announced the position of city ​​architect in 1903 against the background of a planned new hospital building , he was selected by Mayor Franz Gielen and, with the consent of the city council, stopped in February 1904: his service began on April 16.

As a city architect, Sittel was immediately responsible for the most important urban building projects. Stylistically, he developed from a barely adorned, but “picturesque” neo-baroque style to a homeland style influenced by the Lower Rhine region and preferred more conservative forms in the 1920s. The large public buildings of the pre-war period were increasingly replaced by housing estates after 1918 ; In 1926 the city began to draw up a general development plan under Sittel's leadership. One of Sittel's most important employees was Alex Girmes , who had worked in Neuss since 1914 and was appointed city architect in 1933 .

In 1933 the center member asked for a leave of absence “for health reasons” and finally took early retirement on May 1, 1934. In 1943 the Sittel family moved to Hochheim am Main , but returned to Neuss in 1948, where Carl Sittel died in 1955.

buildings

  • 1896–98: Cologne-Lindenthal , monastery and hospital of the Cologne Alexians (part unknown)
  • 1904/05: Salzstrasse, Städtisches Elektrizitätswerk , (expanded in 1909)
  • 1904/05: Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 84, own residential building
  • 1908 Municipal high school at Niedertor (destroyed)
  • 1909: Customs office on Marienplatz (destroyed)
  • 1910: City hall extension (destroyed)
  • 1911: Preussenstrasse, Städt. hospital
  • 1912–14: Municipal waterworks at Broichhof
  • 1912/13: Annostrasse 30, Former Urban Ev. Girls' school (Annoschule), today a branch of the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium.
  • 1914 at: Leostrasse, elementary school
  • 1914–16: Jostenallee, teacher training college, today Marie-Curie-Gymnasium
  • 1919: Hammer Landstrasse: town houses
  • 1921: Kaarster Strasse: town houses
  • 1921: Bergheimerstrasse: town houses
  • 1922–1923: Jostenallee, Venloerstrasse: urban housing estate
  • 1922–23: Preussenstrasse, housing estate, for the Bund der Kinderreich
  • 1928–32: Weingartstrasse, elementary school

literature

  • Enters, Gottfried: Neuss on the Rhine. Düsseldorf 1926
  • Metzdorf, Jörg (ed.): 150 citizens. The civil society of Neuss 1861–2011. Neuss 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Metzdorf 2012, pp. 475-78 (author: Christian Frommert)
  2. ^ Robert Jauch: Franz Gielen (1867–1947). Kreisheimatbund Neuss eV: Pictures of life from the Neuss district, vol. 3, pp. 71–82
  3. ↑ The non-profit building activity of the Neuss city administration, In: Hercher, The administrative region of Düsseldorf, vol. 1: Linker Niederrhein (Germany's urban development), Berlin-Halensee: Dari 1928, p. 246/247
  4. ^ Stadtverwaltung Neuss (ed.) Das Wohn und Siedlungswesen der Stadt Neuss, Düsseldorf 1927, p. 6, 18-25
  5. ↑ Administration reports the city of Neuss 1913-24, 1924-28
  6. ↑ see last: Jens Metzdorf: The electrification of the city. On the establishment of the first municipal power station in Neuss 100 years ago, Novaesium 2005, pp. 75–92
  7. ↑ Laumanns, Clemens; Dr. Buchkremer; Franz J. Ortmann; Carl Sittel: Festschrift for the completion of the secondary school, the port facilities and the circular railway of the city of Neuss. June 15, 1908. Neuss 1908, therein: Carl Sittel: die neue Oberrealschule, pp. 95–99
  8. ↑ Enters 1926, p. 58
  9. ↑ Enters 1926, pp. 58/59
  10. ↑ Enters 1926, p. 60
  11. ↑ Administrative reports 1924, 1928
  12. ^ Stadtverwaltung Neuss (ed.) Das Wohn und Siedlungswesen der Stadt Neuss, Düsseldorf 1927, p. 6, 18-25
personal data
SURNAME Sittel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sittel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH 1955
Place of death Neuss